On 21.08.2008 18:43, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
On Monday, 11 August 2008 at 07:01, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
About the other package. I'm not going to touch that package ever in RPM
Fusion and I more and more agree with those people that asked not to
ship it. So IOW: Somebody else needs to branch, import, build and sign
that package.
I don't know if you read my reply on IRC, but strictly speaking, you
have already done that by branching, importing and signing MPlayer
builds. MPlayer contains a copy of libdvdcss.
I know, but the source here in Germany is not the problem afaik; OTHO
distributing an binary app or lib that is directly able to circumvent
css is afaik.
> [...]
Can't remember, but I think so; it iirc uses the package in question
dynamically if needed.
Indeed, but users still need to get that package from somewhere.
And I'd say that "somewhere" is the better place (¹) as having a
compiled libdvdcss in the repos in my humble opinion might be
problematic for these reasons:
* we already lost one major long-term Fedora and Livna contributor
from Europe because he feared to contribute to a repo that might contain
libdvdcss.
* There are likely a lot more Fedora contributors that won't
contribute to RPM Fusion (livna showed that in the past) as long as
there is a package like libdvdcss in the repos, as libdvdcss is one
level more problematic that all the other stuff we have.
* I hope that we in the long term can cooperate with proprietary
software companies to get their software (things like flash, adobe
reader and similar stuff) into our nonfree repo; that will liekly never
work if we have libdvdcss in the repo
* it could create trouble for people mirroring or using RPM Fusion;
thus some people will decide not to mirror or use RPM Fusion
As always: just my 2 cent
CU
knurd
(¹) -- I'm sure we can get that "somewhere" up and running quickly and
make it available for RPM Fusion users easily
